Joomla 2.5 website (to be updated) doesn't read configuration.php Topic is solved

[gabriel3]

I'm still brawling with the migration of a J2.5 website to update it to 3.9

Site is up and running, but it seems it doesn't read configuration.php file as "Global Configuration" section is showing lot of empty fields, that aren't saved if I manually enter data into them.
I.e. Site Name or Default Editor in "Site" tab, all database settings on "Server" tab, and so on. All this data is properly specified into configuration.php file.
configuration.php permissions are set to 644.

j25conf.jpg

Any help would be appreciated...

[toivo]

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[gabriel3]

Joomla! Instance :: Joomla! 2.5.24-Stable (Ember) 25-July-2014
Joomla! Platform :: Joomla Platform 11.4.0-Stable (Brian Kernighan) 03-Jan-2012
Joomla! Configured :: Yes | Writable (644) | Owner: --protected-- . (uid: 1/gid: 1) | Group: --protected-- (gid: 1) | Valid For: 2.5
Configuration Options :: Offline: false | SEF: true | SEF Suffix: true | SEF ReWrite: true | .htaccess/web.config: Yes | GZip: false | Cache: false | CacheTime: 15 | CacheHandler: file | CachePlatformPrefix: N/A | FTP Layer: false | Proxy: N/A | LiveSite: | Session lifetime: 15 | Session handler: database | Shared sessions: N/A | SSL: 0 | Error Reporting: default | Site Debug: false | Language Debug: false | Default Access: 1 | Unicode Slugs: false | dbConnection Type: mysqli | PHP Supports J! 2.5.24: No | Database Supports J! 2.5.24: Yes | Database Credentials Present: Yes |

Host Configuration :: OS: Linux | OS Version: 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 | Technology: x86_64 | Web Server: Apache | Encoding: gzip, deflate, br | Doc Root: --protected-- | System TMP Writable: Yes | Free Disk Space : 249.94 GiB |

PHP Configuration :: Version: 7.1.28 | PHP API: cgi-fcgi | Session Path Writable: Yes | Display Errors: 1 | Error Reporting: 24567 | Log Errors To: | Last Known Error: | Register Globals: | Magic Quotes: | Safe Mode: | Open Base: | Uploads: 1 | Max. Upload Size: 50M | Max. POST Size: 30M | Max. Input Time: 60 | Max. Execution Time: 900 | Memory Limit: 256M

Database Configuration :: Version: 5.5.61-38.13-log (Client:mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 38fea24f2847fa7519001be390c98ae0acafe387 $) | Host: --protected-- (--protected--) | default Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (default Character Set: latin1) | Database Size: 42.61 MiB | #of Tables:  65

PHP Extensions :: Core (7.1.28) | date (7.1.28) | libxml (7.1.28) | openssl (7.1.28) | pcre (7.1.28) | sqlite3 (7.1.28) | zlib (7.1.28) | bcmath (7.1.28) | bz2 (7.1.28) | calendar (7.1.28) | ctype (7.1.28) | curl (7.1.28) | dom (20031129) | hash (1.0) | fileinfo (1.0.5) | filter (7.1.28) | ftp (7.1.28) | gd (7.1.28) | gettext (7.1.28) | SPL (7.1.28) | iconv (7.1.28) | session (7.1.28) | intl (1.1.0) | json (1.5.0) | mbstring (7.1.28) | mcrypt (7.1.28) | standard (7.1.28) | mysqlnd (mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 38fea24f2847fa7519001be390c98ae0acafe387 $) | mysqli (7.1.28) | PDO (7.1.28) | pdo_mysql (7.1.28) | pdo_sqlite (7.1.28) | Phar (2.0.2) | posix (7.1.28) | Reflection (7.1.28) | imap (7.1.28) | SimpleXML (7.1.28) | soap (7.1.28) | exif (7.1.28) | tidy (7.1.28) | tokenizer (7.1.28) | wddx (7.1.28) | xml (7.1.28) | xmlreader (7.1.28) | xmlrpc (7.1.28) | xmlwriter (7.1.28) | xsl (7.1.28) | zip (1.13.5) | cgi-fcgi () | imagick (3.4.3) | raphf (2.0.0) | propro (2.1.0) | SourceGuardian (11.2) | ionCube Loader () | Zend Engine (3.1.0) |
Potential Missing Extensions ::
Disabled Functions :: system | popen | dl | passthru | proc_open | shell_exec |

Switch User Environment (Experimental) :: PHP CGI: Yes | Server SU: Yes | PHP SU: Yes | Custom SU (LiteSpeed/Cloud/Grid): Yes
Potential Ownership Issues: No

Core Folders :: images/ (755) | components/ (755) | modules/ (755) | plugins/ (755) | language/ (755) | templates/ (755) | cache/ (755) | logs/ (755) | tmp/ (755) | administrator/components/ (755) | administrator/modules/ (755) | administrator/language/ (755) | administrator/templates/ (755) | administrator/logs/ (---) |

Elevated Permissions (First 10) ::

Database statistics :: Uptime: 23905219 | Threads: 26 | Questions: 33166084306 | Slow queries: 21838 | Opens: 1441940384 | Flush tables: 19 | Open tables: 129 | Queries per second avg: 1387.399 |

Components :: SITE ::
Core :: com_mailto (2.5.0) 1 | com_wrapper (2.5.0) 1 |
3rd Party::

Components :: ADMIN ::
Core :: com_admin (2.5.0) 1 | com_banners (2.5.0) 1 | com_cache (2.5.0) 1 | com_categories (2.5.0) 1 | com_checkin (2.5.0) 1 | com_config (2.5.0) 1 | com_content (2.5.0) 1 | com_cpanel (2.5.0) 1 | com_finder (2.5.0) 1 | com_installer (2.5.0) 1 | com_joomlaupdate (2.5.0) 1 | com_languages (2.5.0) 1 | com_login (2.5.0) 1 | com_media (2.5.0) 1 | com_menus (2.5.0) 1 | com_messages (2.5.0) 1 | com_modules (2.5.0) 1 | com_newsfeeds (2.5.0) 1 | com_plugins (2.5.0) 1 | com_redirect (2.5.0) 1 | com_search (2.5.0) 1 | com_templates (2.5.0) 1 | com_users (2.5.0) 1 | com_weblinks (2.5.0) 1 |
3rd Party:: Akeeba (4.7.5) ? |

Modules :: SITE ::
Core :: mod_articles_archive (2.5.0) 1 | mod_articles_categories (2.5.0) 1 | mod_articles_category (2.5.0) 1 | mod_articles_latest (2.5.0) 1 | mod_articles_news (2.5.0) 1 | mod_articles_popular (2.5.0) 1 | mod_banners (2.5.0) 1 | mod_breadcrumbs (2.5.0) 1 | mod_custom (2.5.0) 1 | mod_feed (2.5.0) 1 | mod_finder (2.5.0) 1 | mod_footer (2.5.0) 1 | mod_languages (2.5.0) 1 | mod_login (2.5.0) 1 | mod_menu (2.5.0) 1 | mod_random_image (2.5.0) 1 | mod_related_items (2.5.0) 1 | mod_search (2.5.0) 1 | mod_stats (2.5.0) 1 | mod_syndicate (2.5.0) 1 | mod_users_latest (2.5.0) 1 | mod_weblinks (2.5.0) 1 | mod_whosonline (2.5.0) 1 | mod_wrapper (2.5.0) 1 |
3rd Party:: mod_news_pro_gk4 (3.4.1) 1 | [spam] (6.3) 1 |

Modules :: ADMIN ::
Core :: mod_custom (2.5.0) 1 | mod_feed (2.5.0) 1 | mod_latest (2.5.0) 1 | mod_logged (2.5.0) 1 | mod_login (2.5.0) 1 | mod_menu (2.5.0) 1 | mod_multilangstatus (2.5.0) 1 | mod_popular (2.5.0) 1 | mod_quickicon (2.5.0) 1 | mod_status (2.5.0) 1 | mod_submenu (2.5.0) 1 | mod_title (2.5.0) 1 | mod_toolbar (2.5.0) 1 | mod_version (2.5.0) 1 |
3rd Party::

Libraries :: SITE ::
Core ::
3rd Party::

Plugins :: SITE ::
Core :: plg_authentication_gmail (2.5.0) 0 | plg_authentication_joomla (2.5.0) 1 | plg_authentication_ldap (2.5.0) 0 | plg_captcha_recaptcha (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_emailcloak (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_finder (2.5.0) 0 | plg_content_geshi (2.5.0) 0 | plg_content_joomla (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_loadmodule (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_pagebreak (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_pagenavigation (2.5.0) 1 | plg_content_vote (2.5.0) 1 | plg_editors-xtd_article (2.5.0) 1 | plg_editors-xtd_image (2.5.0) 1 | plg_editors-xtd_pagebreak (2.5.0) 1 | plg_editors-xtd_readmore (2.5.0) 1 | plg_extension_joomla (2.5.0) 1 | plg_finder_categories (2.5.0) 1 | plg_finder_contacts (2.5.0) 1 | plg_finder_content (2.5.0) 1 | plg_finder_newsfeeds (2.5.0) 1 | plg_finder_weblinks (2.5.0) 1 | plg_quickicon_extensionupdate (2.5.0) 1 | plg_quickicon_joomlaupdate (2.5.0) 1 | plg_search_categories (2.5.0) 1 | plg_search_contacts (2.5.0) 1 | plg_search_content (2.5.0) 1 | plg_search_newsfeeds (2.5.0) 1 | plg_search_weblinks (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_cache (2.5.0) 0 | plg_system_debug (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_highlight (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_languagecode (2.5.0) 0 | plg_system_languagefilter (2.5.0) 0 | plg_system_log (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_logout (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_p3p (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_redirect (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_remember (2.5.0) 1 | plg_system_sef (2.5.0) 1 | plg_user_contactcreator (2.5.0) 0 | plg_user_joomla (2.5.0) 1 | plg_user_profile (2.5.0) 0 |
3rd Party:: plg_editors_codemirror (1.0) 1 | plg_editors_tinymce (3.5.4.1) 1 | plg_quickicon_akeebabackup (1.0) 1 | PLG_SYSTEM_BACKUPONUPDATE_TITLE (3.7) 1 | System - HD-OG (3.2) 1 | PLG_JMONITORING_AKEEBABACKUP_TITLE (1.0) 1 |

Templates :: SITE :: atomic (2.5.0) 1 | beez5 (2.5.0) 1 | beez_20 (2.5.0) 1 | magazine3000 (2.5.0) 1 |
Templates :: ADMIN :: bluestork (2.5.0) 1 | hathor (2.5.0) 1 |

Here it is. Thank you!

[gabriel3]

Probably it is a problem tied with php version?
On the same space/domain I have a J3 website running, so PHP is 7.x

[toivo]

Yes, Joomla 2.5 is not supported on PHP 7.
Ref. https://downloads.joomla.org/technical-requirements

[Per Yngve Berg]

You are also behind in updating. The last version is 2.5.28.

https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla ... format=zip

[gabriel3]

Thanks, I solved changing PHP version on the server.
I was also unable to update to 2.5.28 due to this.

Thanks!